Mozilla not working after install

[Brian Costa]

Thanks Danial, responses inline...

Daniel wrote:

> Did you try running just:
> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/mozilla-bin
>
> from a terminal window?  Sometimes GUI apps will dump error 
> information back to STDERR on the terminal from which they were 
> executed.  Also, executing Mozilla without the extra locale 
> information may help identify where the error is.

No output, it just returned.

>
> Also, two more places to check for errors:
>         /var/log (us 'ls -last /var/log | less' to sort by 
> modification date)
>         Try using Ctrl+Alt+F1 to jump out of X.  Sometimes X logs it's 
> errors out to one of the virtual terminals.
>         (you can use Alt+F7 to get back into X) 


No output in either place.

I had a feeling it was network related, rather than X since other X apps 
worked correctly.  There is both the built in ethernet card and an added 
airport card.  The airport card is not used at the moment.  I tried 
ifconfig'ing it down and giving the machine a valid, non-localhost, 
hostname.  These changes caused the the symptoms to change and Mozilla 
would just hang when run rather than returning silently.

I noticed that there were ppc versions of Mozilla 1.4 available, so I 
tried installing those.  They worked fine.

So I don't know what was the problem, but It's working now and I'm happy.

Thanks for you assistance,

Brian


>
>
> At 11:12 AM 7/11/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> I'm starting with an iMac DV 400, YDL only, custom install - selected 
>> "everything" for install...
>>
>> Initially the /etc/X11/XF86Config file was wrong - it had a 
>> VertRefresh of  75 - 60, which needed to be changed to 75 - 117.  
>> This change allowed X to start.  But Mozilla would not start.  
>> Clicking the icon caused the outline of a window to appear breifly, 
>> and then it would dissappear.  I then did a full "yum update", and 
>> tried it again.  Still Mozilla does not start.
>>
>> The /usr/bin/mozilla script runs "exec 
>> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/mozilla-bin -UILocale en-US", which just 
>> returns without any indication that there is a problem.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> TIA Brian
>>
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